Tag: juan

How popular is the baby name Juan in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, see baby names similar to Juan and check out all the blog posts that mention the name Juan.

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A decade ago, before Arizona approved one of the harshest laws in the nation aimed at those here illegally, names like Angel, Jose, Jesus and Juan were among the Top 20. In fact in 2005 Jose was the top name for all boys born in the state.

A couple of weeks ago, reader Becca sent me a link to a Washington Post graphic showing the 10 most common names of registered voters within each of Washington D.C.’s four main political parties — Statehood Green, Democratic, Republican and Libertarian.

The graphic didn’t mention the disparity between the sizes of these groups, though, so let’s throw that in too. The lists were based on data from mid-June, 2015, so here are the D.C. voter registration statistics from June 30th:

The top Libertarian names are 70% male and 30% female, and most saw peak usage during the last few decades of the 20th century, especially the ’90s.

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It was interesting to see just how feminine and old-fashioned the top Democrat names are. But the thing that most surprised was that the Green party’s list included zero female names. I would have guessed that, if any list here was going to be 100% male, it’d be the Libertarian party — definitely not the Green party.

How has the ratio of Biblical names to non-Biblical names changed over time (if at all) among the most popular baby names in the U.S.?

This question popped into my head recently, so I thought I’d take a look at the data. We’ll do boy names today and girl names tomorrow.

First, let’s set some parameters. For these posts, “Biblical” names are personal names (belonging to either humans or archangels) mentioned in the Bible, plus all derivatives of these names, plus any other name with a specifically Biblical origin (e.g., Jordan, Sharon, Genesis). The “most popular” names are the top 20, and “over time” is the span of a century.

For boy names, the ratio of Biblical names to non-Biblical names has basically flipped over the last 100 years. Here’s a visual — Biblical names are in the yellow cells, non-Biblical names are in the green cells, and a borderline name (which I counted as non-Biblical) is in the orange cell:

According to data from Malta’s National Statistics Office, the most popular name-groups in Malta in 2014 were Elena/Elenia/Helena/Ella and Luke/Luca/Lucas.

Here are Malta’s top 10 girl and boy name-groups of 2014:

Girl Names

Boy Names

Elena/Elenia/Helena/Ella, 97 baby girls

Julia/Yulia/Julianne, 72

Emma/Emmanuela/Ema, 70

Eliza/Elisa/Elizabeth/Elise, 69

Catherine/Katrina/Kate/Katya, 46

Maya/Mia/Myah, 44

Lea/Leah/Leia, 42

Emilia/Emily/Emelie, 41

Amy/Aimee, 39

Maria/Marija/Mariah/Marie, 37 [tie]

Anna/Hannah/Ann, 37 [tie]

Luke/Luca/Lucas, 98 baby boys

Matthew/Matthias/Matteo, 97

Jacob/Jake, 77

Zachary/Zak/Zack, 59

Michael/Miguel/Mikhail, 53

Liam/William, 51 [tie]

John/Jean/Jonathan/Juan/Gan, 51 [tie]

Benjamin/Ben, 51

Kaiden/Kayden/Kai ,46 [tie]

Alexander/Alessandro/Alec, 46 [tie]

Andrew/Andreas/Andre/Andy, 45

Joseph/Beppe/Giuseppe/Josef, 40

Down in 15th place on the boys’ side is “Yannick/Yan” — both are versions of John, and yet they’re not part of the John group, which is tied for 6th.

Speaking of strange things…

The current Maltese birth registration system does not allow for Maltese fonts, which essentially means that names with ċ such as Ċikku or Ċensa; with a ġ such as Ġorġ or Ġanna; and with a ż such as Liża or Ġużi, are out – or at least will be recorded without the essential dots which distinguish the Maltese phonetical sound.

I’ve seen governments (e.g., NWT, California) make excuses about not being able to render minority/ethnic names properly on birth certificates, but I’ve never heard of a country that couldn’t render names from its own national language.